Histories

It was these that Theras was preparing to join, taking with him a company of people from the tribes; his intention was to settle among the people of +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Calliste and not drive them out but claim them as in fact his own people.

So when the Minyae escaped from prison and camped on Teügetum, and the Lacedaemonians were planning to put them to death, Theras interceded for their lives, that there might be no killing, promising to lead them out of the country himself.

The Lacedaemonians consented to this, and Theras sailed with three thirty-oared ships to join the descendants of Membliarus, taking with him not all the Minyae but only a few;

for the greater part of them made their way to the lands of the Paroreatae and Caucones, and after having driven these out of their own country, they divided themselves into six companies and established the cities of Lepreum, Macistus, Phrixae, Pyrgus, Epium, and Nudium in the land they had won;[*](These six towns were in the western +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese, in Triphylia, a district between +Elis [21.4,37.8833] (Perseus) Elis and +Nomos Messinias [21.833,37.25] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Messenia.) most of these were in my time taken and sacked by the Eleans. As for the island +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Calliste, it was called +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera after its colonist.

But as Theras' son would not sail with him, his father said that he would leave him behind as a sheep among wolves; after which saying the boy got the nickname of Oeolycus,[*](Literally “sheep-wolf.”) and it so happened that this became his customary name. He had a son, Aegeus, from whom the Aegidae, a great Spartan clan, take their name.